Join the Hilltopper Family

Can you see yourself making a positive impact at WKU? We offer an inviting and challenging work environment, responsive to the needs of a diverse and ambitious learning community. See our open faculty and staff positions. Employment Website.

If you would like to request a mathematics course substitution or transfer equivalency,
then please follow the procedure outlined below:

Option I: You would like for a course that you took elsewhere to substitute for a course that
is required for your major or minor. Then please print out this Transfer Equivalency Request Form and fill out the top section and the bottom left section. Take the form to your
academic advisor for approval, and then to the Head of your own academic department.

Example 1. You are a Biology major and the Biology Department requires MATH 116 and MATH 117
for the major. You had a pre-calculus course elsewhere and the Mathematics Department
has deemed that it is not equivalent to any existing WKU math course. The Biology
Department may substitute that pre-calculus course for MATH 117 for you only if they
so choose. They do not need approval of the Mathematics Department. Then you will
have satisfied their MATH 117 requirement. However you will not have actual credit
for MATH 117, and therefore you will not have the prerequisite for MATH 136 - Calculus
I.

Example 2. You are a Pre-nursing major and the Nursing Department requires a statistics course.
You had a statistics course elsewhere and the Mathematics Department has deemed that
it is not equivalent to our MATH 183. The Nursing Department may substitute your
statistics course for MATH 183 for you only if they so choose. They do not need approval
of the Mathematics Department. Then you will have satisfied their statistics requirement.

Option II: You would like for the mathematics course that you took elsewhere to count as a
direct equivalency to an existing WKU mathematics course. Then please print out this
Transfer Equivalency Request Form and fill out the top section and the bottom right section. Return the form along
with the official catalog course description to Dr. David Neal, Department of Mathematics, COHH 4108. If possible, please include the instructor's
syllabus for the course that you took.

All decisions on course substitutions and course equivalencies are administrative
matters and not academic advising matters. The decisions are not made by Dr. Neal,
and Dr. Neal will not provide students or faculty with any opinion or recommendation
on whether or not a substitution or equivalency will be approved. Once the matter
is decided or if it has previously been decided, then Dr. Neal will inform you of
the outcome.

Dr. Molly Dunkum was named one of two Faculty Collaborative Fellow by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. The award is for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years, and carries its own honorarium and travel funds.

The 35th Annual Mathematics Symposium will be held November 13th and 14th in Snell Hall on WKU's main campus. This year's keynote speaker is Professor Henry Segerman of Oklahoma State University. Students are encouraged to submit abstracts.